“I only want $300.00 a month for rent, and you have the use of the bathroom, laundry and you are also welcome to use the sitting room if you like. ...n case you have any visitors. If you want any meals, I will only charge you an extra $20.00 a week, as it is just as easy to cook for two as it is for one. “That sounds great Gloria, are you sure that will be enough. I would be willing to pay more if necessary.” Gloria replied, “That will be quite enough.” We settled on $500.00 per month and I. They still bathe and shower together like they did when two and four,” he told me. “Their mom works so hard and has to go all over the world, and most nights, I don’t get home until late. I can leave them alone and not have to worry about it. Their older brother and younger sister are different matters. Thanks for taking good care of her for me. We didn’t know if she was crashing somewhere tonight or not.”Ellen begged to have a sleepover at someone else’s cabin tonight. I had her take her meds,. “It’s dark. I’m hungry! Haven’t you finished yet?”“Be right there,” I yelled, chuckling and shaking my head.Finishing the last of the fresh water rinse, I headed back, coiling the hose as I walked. Darkness had set. Crickets had started their nightly song. Ahead, the kitchen and family room windows glowed bright with lights.“It’s about time,” Rory commented when I stepped through the glass doors, closing the screen behind me. She looked sweet in an overly large red Budweiser T-shirt - mine. It. The sails billowed strongly in the wind, and flapped noisily. Quietly as I could, I crept onto the Upper Deck and started climbing to the Crows Nest. I was barely at the first platform when I realised this was a ridiculous idea. The wind, chilled my fingers to the bone, while nearly dragging me off the ladders when it got strong. The low light, meant I was searching for each step in the dark.In total it took twenty minutes to climb to the top of the Crows Nest and I gingerly opened the hatch. I.